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Monthly Archives: May, 2019

Contractors urged to deliver quality work on Ogoni cleanup

The Minister of Environment, Alhaji Suleiman Zarma, has urged contractors handling the remediation of oil spills in Ogoniland to deliver a quality work. Zarma gave the advice...

IPCC updates methodology for greenhouse gas inventories

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday, May 13, 2019 an update to its methodology used by governments to estimate their greenhouse gas...

Institute to conduct research to mitigate effects of climate change

The Executive Director, Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Prof. James Adediran, on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 affirmed the institute’s commitment to conduct...

Cyclone Idai: Nigeria to assist in rehabilitation, reconstruction of Mozambique

Nigeria on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 in Maputo pledged to assist in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Mozambique, which was recently hit by a...

FAO unveils five-year strategic plan for agric in Nigeria

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has given a breakdown of its five-year strategic Programming Framework for Nigeria (CPF), spanning between 2018 and 2022. Suffyan Koroma, FAO...

Biosafety agency has delivered on its targets, says minister

Minister of Environment, Suleiman Hassan Zarma, has said that the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has delivered on its targets in line with its mandate of ensuring...

Kyoto pledges to achieve zero emissions by 2050

The city of Kyoto in Japan on Monday, May 13, 2019 announced that it will have zero emissions by 2050 in line with the global...

Activists flay ENI, Shell’s reforestation offer

Plans by oil giants, ENI and Shell, to embark on large scale reforestation by planting some 8.1 million hectares of trees in Mozambique, South...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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